NBC has fashioned
the fall season premiere of "The Voice" into a three-night event
with the addition of a new night on Wednesday, Sept. 12 (8 p.m.)
following the previously scheduled debut on Monday, Sept. 10 (8 to 10
p.m.) and Tuesday, Sept. 11 (8 p.m.).

"The Voice"
returns with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited
to compete in the blockbuster vocal competition show's third season.
Celebrity musician coaches Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam
Levine and Blake Shelton return along with Carson Daly as host and
Christina Milian as social media correspondent.

Monday night will
open with the Grammy-winning coaches performing "Start Me Up"
together to show the new contestants just how it's done. Then the
blind auditions begin with the coaches in their chairs turned away
from the singers, until the strength of a voice motivates the coaches
to start pressing their buttons and turning their chairs around.

The show's
innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind
audition, the battle round, the brand new knockouts and finally, the
live performance shows.

During the blind
auditions, the decisions from the musician coaches are based solely
on voice and not on looks. The coaches hear the artists perform, but
they don't get to see them - thanks to rotating chairs. If a coach
is impressed by the artist's voice, he/she pushes a button to
select the artist for his/her team. At this point, the coach's
chair will swivel so that he/she can face the artist he/she has
selected. If more than one coach pushes their button, the power then
shifts to the artist to choose which coach they want to work with. If
no coach pushes their button, the artist is eliminated from the
competition.

Once the teams are
set, the battle is on. Coaches will dedicate themselves to developing
their team of artists, giving them advice, and sharing the secrets of
their success along with the help from their celebrity advisers.
During the battle rounds, the coaches will pit two of their own team
members against each other to sing the same song together in front of
a studio audience. After the vocal battle, the coach must choose
which of his/her singers will advance to the next round of
competition, while the losing artist is available to be stolen by
another coach.

At the end of the
battles, only the strongest members of each coach's roster remain and
proceed to the new knockout rounds. The artists will be paired again
with a member of their team, but this time they find out only minutes
before performing who they are being compared against. The artists
each select their own song to perform individually, while their
direct competitor watches and waits. They are vying for their coach's
confidence and decision to take them to the live shows. Their coach
will choose the winner and the artist not selected will be sent home.

In the final live
performance phase of the competition, the top artists from each team
will compete each week against each other during a live broadcast.
The television audience will vote to save their favorite artists and
the two artists with the lowest number of votes will be sent home
each week. In the end, one will be named "The Voice" and will
receive the grand prize of a recording contract.